Electrical connector having improved LED

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative housing defining a mating cavity forwardly communicating with an exterior through a front mating face along a front-to-back direction;
• a plurality of mating terminals extending into the mating cavity;
• a receiving slot formed in the housing beside said mating cavity and forwardly extending through the front mating face;
• a light emitting diode (LED) attachably received within the corresponding receiving slot, and including a front light portion exposed upon the mating face, and a rigid lead extending rearwardly from the light portion;
• and
• an adapting terminal having a resilient cooperating portion cooperating with an immovable insulative retaining post to sandwich the rigid lead therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction so as to form a mechanical and electrical connection between the rigid lead and the resilient cooperating portion, wherein
• said adapting terminal is retained in an insulative body to commonly form an adapting terminal module, said insulative body fixedly assembled to the housing, and said retaining post formed on the insulative body;
• wherein
• said adapting terminal includes a vertical retaining portion, a horizontal guiding contacting portion forwardly extending from a top end of the vertical retaining portion, an adapting portion extending upwardly from the guiding contacting portion in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction, and said cooperating portion extending from said adapting portion horizontally.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative housing including a mating face, a mating cavity extending through the mating face in a front-to-rear direction, and a pair of light receiving slots situated around the mating cavity and extending through the mating face in the front-to-rear direction;
• a pair of light emitting diodes (LEDs) each mounted in a corresponding light receiving slot, each LED having a lighting portion and a pair of leads extending rearwardly from the lighting portion in a horizontal direction;
• and
• an adapting terminal module including an insulative body mounted on a rear side of the insulative housing and four adapting terminals retained to the insulative body, each adapting terminal having a cooperating portion interference fit with the lead;
• wherein
• the cooperating portion is resiliently connected with the lead of the LED, the insulative body includes a retaining post, and the lead is retained between the retaining post and the cooperating portion;
• wherein
• the insulative body engages the insulative housing in a snap-fit manner;
• wherein
• the insulative body includes a vertical wall extending in an up-to-down direction, a horizontal wall extending forwards in the front-to-rear direction, and a pair of side walls connecting with the vertical wall and the horizontal wall, and the retaining post extends upwardly from the horizontal wall;
• wherein
• the insulative housing includes a pair of side portions, a top portion connecting the pair of side portions, and a bottom portion located opposite to the top portion, and the pair of side portions, the top portion, and the bottom portion jointly form the mating cavity and a mounting cavity located behind the mating cavity;
• wherein
• each side portion includes an inner locking block located in the mounting cavity, each side wall includes an outer locking block locking with the inner locking block.